John Horgan, a psychologist who interviewed a large number of terrorists, concluded that they tend to have seven common traits.
Scruton did not entertain petty prejudices, and had no wish to tell anyone how to live or who to love.
Different forms of suffering cannot easily be quantified and compared.
Daniel Hannan, the Conservative Member of the European Parliament for South East England, talks to Toby Young about his lifelong friendship with the late Conservative philosopher Sir Roger Scruton.
If lawmakers want to help their constituents fight compulsive gambling, then putting the brakes on legalization is the most impactful policy in the short term.
To understand morality from an evolutionary point of view, one needs to realize that humans have always existed in groups.
One young man said to me, “How did you get tenure?” When I said that I didn’t have tenure he said, “Good! Because you’re not going to get it.”
Breaking up the tech giants would interrupt the network effects that make their products so valuable in the first place.
The plan’s introduction, “Jobs as Central to Life,” starts by praising the liberal arts. But like Hamlet’s insincere Player Queen, it doth protest too much.
Harvard Historian James Hankins on what the great Renaissance humanists can teach us about virtue and statecraft. Plus: Why so many get Machiavelli wrong.
The prospect of stagnating incomes amidst ruinous pension and other costs comprise a toxic cocktail with potentially profound de-stabilizing effects.
As unpleasant as this kind of harsh treatment was, defenders of EITs maintained that it fell short of torture.
A more aggressive use of controlled burns might have given firefighters a chance to control this season’s bushfires.
Many Western leftists repeated the Ayatollahs’ talking points.
Unlike the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooter or the 2019 Poway synagogue shooter, the suspects in these attacks weren’t white supremacists.